If you didn't have two small kids, I might recommend going to teach English in Korea or China. You could make a couple of thousand a month plus housing. If your wife has a degree and wants to work, maybe it could work out, but then educating the kids in English might be a big issue. I am not the type to take a year away from my kids. Some people do that. You could do that to teach English, but the market price seems to be about $2000 a month, which isn't a lot for that type of sacrifice. I don't recall what your non-ministry career has been. If you were a certified teacher, there are Christian international schools that, if they hire you, will fly you and your family over, house you, and you can send your kids there for free. If you can find an English-speaking school like that, that could work out. I'm speaking from my own limited frame of reference, here, working in education.When I was in grad school, we were poor in terms of cash, though the Lord always provided for our basic needs. I often did not know where rent (which is expensive there) was going to come from. A couple from a cell group we'd been in visited Hawaii, but didn't have time to meet us. But they were able to get us $1000 before Christmas one time. Once, when we were leaving, my wife said at a prayer meeting that sister so and so had given her $400. I prayed, Lord, I'l like someone to give me $400. We needed the money. There was this friend from church who'd been helping us clean and pack before we moved. I didn't have much, but I was thinking of giving her $100. Her and her husband didn't make a lot of money. I dropped her and her boy off at their house since that was an all-night prayer meeting and they didn't have a ride. She handed me $400. I almost gave it back until I saw that it was $400, and then I didn't dare, because it probably hadn't been an hour since I'd prayed for someone to give me $400. I told her about my prayer and said I'd trust God to bless her.Before I moved to Hawaii, the sole of my athletic shoes I used every day broke. I prayed for God to provide me a pair of new shoes at a thrift store super cheap. One day when in a vacation condo temporarily in Honolulu, right after we got there, we weren't going to look for housing that day, so I went to the thrift store next door that I'd seen a sign for. I went out there to get those shoes I'd prayed for. There was a pair of new shoes on the top of a stack in a box outside the store. I figured I'd check the size on my new pair of shoes. Sure enough, it was my size. I asked the girl in the store how much they were. She said normally $17, I think she said, but that day, she was having a said. I got them for $2, a new pair of New Balance. The guy who'd brought them in had donated two pairs he'd just bought. The other pair sold the tag. (Not about jobs, but I thought you could use a testimony about God's provision.)Anyway, we were poor in Hawaii. My wife is a great cook and suggested we take our meager resources and start selling food. They had street parties where you could do that in Hawaii where they block off the street and thousands of people will go there to eat and listen to live music. So we did that, and it helped us scrape by.We did a trade show in Hawaii where we sold food for three days in a row, hardly sleeping in between because we had to buy food and prep it for the next day. There were lots of vendors selling wares. I heard a guy selling tea to customers as they walked into the busy event could make several thousand gross. We had to put a lot of capital into our food not to mention labor. He was selling basically water, and he may have had even better revenue than us. Lots of other vendors were selling non-food items.There are all kinds of niches for little vendors. It doesn't have to be some sort of ad hoc retail thing. If you have some sort of skill, you may be able to offer training courses. Are you good at giving presentations? In a large city, you might be able to learn a bit about teaching presentation skills and then do some corporate training. There are also things you can get certified on that could get you a job or a business, Microsoft courses related to their software and systems, Google Adwords training, home inspection, medical coding, real estate appraisal, or selling real estate.If you have some capital, maybe you could sell something online. You could write a book and sell it on amazon, or hire people to ghost write for you and sell those books. There are lots of online niches. What are your skills and work experiences that you could build on to start a small business or to find a job in a niche where there is high demand
Quick links
FAQ
Register
Login